piñón: doing it deliberately
abstract
Davidson (1980a) proposes that the it of do it refers
to an event (namely, to what an agent did), where events are taken to be
concrete particulars. I argue that Davidson's idea faces linguistic
difficulties and offer an alternative analysis in which the it
of do it refers to an event type. This alternative analysis has
the advantage of naturally accounting for the problems that thwart
Davidson's proposal.
note
I have a later (updated) handout based on this paper: "Doing it".
reference
- Piñón, Christopher. Doing it deliberately.
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language,
Gábor Alberti, Kata Balogh, and Paul Dekker, editors, pages
103–111. Pécs, Hungary, 2002. URL:
<http://pinon.sdf-eu.org/covers/did.html>.
download "Doing it deliberately" (prepublication version, 2002)
The line and page breaks of the prepublication version are slightly
different from those of the published version. However, the total number
of pages (9) and the text are the same, aside from a few typos corrected
in the prepublication version. :-)
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piñón: doing it deliberately
last updated on 8 aug 07
christopher piñón (pinon AT sdf HYPHEN eu DOT org)
http://pinon.sdf-eu.org/covers/did.html